ghost of miles

Maybe Hunter just couldn't take four more years of W. Clem, F & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is a great read and too often overlooked in the shadows of LAS VEGAS, IMO.

It is now archived.

Damn... my brother is the general manager of Sheraton Four Points in northern Milwaukee... this happened at the Sheraton in a western Milwaukee suburb. Haven't had a chance to talk to him about it yet... terrible:

Tina Brooks' MINOR MOVE, which provoked much discussion as AOTW.

Actually, it's not the same person, is it? Our "Ingram" doesn't seem to have ever posted about jazz guitar... seems inconceivable that he wouldn't if he were the same, and our Ingram hails from Aberdeen. I'm also assuming that it's a fairly common last name on the other side of the Big Pond.

"Ingram" is Adrian Ingram? Hell, I've got his Wes Montgomery bio and didn't even make any connection, though I knew the author was English...

This week on Night Lights it's "Even White Girls Get the Blues," a look at three late-1950s blues-concept LPs by white female vocalists. We'll hear selections from Lee Wiley's 1957 RCA album A TOUCH OF THE BLUES (backed by Billy Butterfield and His Orchestra), Julie London's 1957 "blues noir" LP ABOUT THE BLUES, and Jo Stafford's 1959 concept record BALLAD OF THE BLUES, featuring traditionals arranged by her husband Paul Weston and original linking music written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, who would go on to win several Academy Awards and Grammys. We'll also hear music from Dinah Shore's 1960 Capitol album DINAH SINGS SOME BLUES WITH RED (as in Norvo). The program airs this Saturday at 11:05 p.m. (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time) on WFIU 103.7 FM; you can listen to it live, or in the Night Lights archives, where it will be posted Monday afternoon. Special thanks to Dan Gould for providing the Dinah Shore Capitol material! And special thanks to Allen Lowe, from whose book AMERICAN POP: FROM MINSTREL TO MOJO I quote in both this and next week's show. Next week: "Why Don't You Do Right," a program devoted to 1940s vocalists and songwriters Una Mae Carlisle and Lil Green.

Hoping it'll be archived, Big Al. I'll post when the new Big Bands site is up and running.

Lee's dead and Freddie don't play no more!

Up for broadcast in a couple of minutes... Marian McPartland's wrapping up Piano Jazz.

Didn't North do the score for I'LL CRY TOMORROW?

The Hill Select.

Well....I'll go along with the first three words, anyway! Amen!

I pull up one album listing on AMG: Raksin suites ...and at home I have the Rhino CD MURDER IS MY BEAT, which has some of the original music for LAURA and FORCE OF EVIL.

Interesting, Larry... has anybody ever put together an LP or CD of Raksin's film scores? I'd love to hear such a project.

Looks like Morgenstern's going to do a "Catching Up With..." over at AAJ, for those who are interested: Morgenstern at AAJ

There are worlds yet left to imagine, Mark... whilst you and I drift drowsily into the stuporous comfort of middle age, younger fire-breathing visionaries dream of boundary-breaking that will liberate us all. Let us pray that we live to see it.

"Miss Peggy Lee" tonight on The Big Bands, featuring Lee's recordings w/Benny Goodman, several of the Capitol transcriptions with Frank DeVol's orchestra (drawn from the Mosaic set), a rare radio side with Billy May, and selections from her 1950s Decca and Capitol recordings. The program airs at 9 p.m. (6:05 California time, 8:05 Chicago time) on WFIU. With luck, this and other big-band programs will soon be archived on a new page at the WFIU website.

I think ArtistShare is a great model for someone like Schneider--but even she admits that "Enja put me on the map." She, Douglas, and Holland have built followings and are well-positioned to market themselves and get a bigger piece of the pie--which they richly deserve. I think this model will be much more difficult for up-and-coming or unknown acts, however.

Aka "The man formerly known as kartoffel·hadi blues!" Hope you're having a swell one!

It's a regular clinic, ain't it? In all senses of the word... Enjoy your day!!

Did it have anything to do with ArtistShare?

The string quartet session is amazing (I had never heard ONE FOR ONE)... this music all sounds so modern. I was spellbound by it last night while I worked on assembling new CD bookcases... my wife walked by and said, "What is this? It's really pretty." (It was "Fragments"; she is a fan of Monk and Dolphy, and a woman, dare I add, of exquisite taste. B-) ) "Pretty" in the best sense of the word. Going to listen to the CHAINED session today at work... a little wary of the 10/31/67 trainwreck that Jim talked about, as I've enjoyed the rest of the collection so much so far, but I'm sure that even that will yield things of interest and value.

Hmmmm.....

Not listed on Hep's site yet, but supposedly there's a second volume of Don Redman on the way.